Senior Thermal Analysis Aerospace Engineer - SRM/CFD

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; Alabama; On-site; USD 89,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Specialist, Aerospace Engineer- Thermal Analysis in Huntsville, AL or Sacramento, CA. The role focuses on thermal and fluids analysis of SRM components, with CFD work in ANSYS Fluent and hand sizing methods for initial verifications.

Ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s (or higher) in engineering, 4+ years of thermal design experience, and exposure to heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and propulsion systems.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior thermal design experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior thermal design experience.
• In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior thermal design experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead complex projects and work with general oversight.
• Communicate effectively with internal and external customers.
• Drive the design from conceptual phase through detailed design.
• Complete and be familiar with hand calculation methods to perform initial sizing and verifications.
• Perform detailed thermal analysis using proprietary codes based on aerothermal tools to provide temperature predictions and ablation assessment of SRM insulators and other hardware components.
• Execute CFD analysis with commercial codes such as ANSYS Fluent to support thermal analysis and SRM design.
• Duties include test support for pre and post-test analysis of static fired motors for model validation.
• Provide rocket motor test instrumentation definition and data processing for production, bench, full engine qualification, etc.
• Ability to obtain a US secret security clearance.
• Travel: 10%.

Skills

Heat transfer

Fluid dynamics

Fortran

Python

Matlab

ANSYS Fluent

CFD++

CEA

CMA

Thermal Desktop

Solid rocket motors

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Graduate Degree in Engineering

Tools

ANSYS Fluent

CFD++

Thermal Desktop

CEA

CMA

Job description

L3Harris Technologies is seeking a Specialist, Aerospace Engineer- Thermal Analysis in Huntsville, AL or Sacramento, CA. The role focuses on thermal and fluids analysis of SRM components, with CFD work in ANSYS Fluent and hand sizing methods for initial verifications.

Ideal candidates will have a bachelor’s (or higher) in engineering, 4+ years of thermal design experience, and exposure to heat transfer, fluid dynamics, and propulsion systems.